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The nerve impulse arrives at the synapse. This triggers vesicles to release chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) into the synapse. These chemicals diffuse across the synapse and bind with membrane rece...

You always start with the sun which gives its every to grass which is a producer of energy. The arrow in the food chain, therefore, travels in the direction the energy travels in  (in this case from the s...

Alleles are different forms of a gene which can become mutated to cause different characteristics or diseases. They can be dominant (usually denonimated by a captial letter H) or recessive (usually denomi...

Despite animal cells all having a nucleus (for genetic information storage and reproduction), a cytoplasm (for structure), mitochondria (for aerobic respiration), ribosomes (for protein synthesis) and a c...

Plant cells possess a membrane bound nucleus that acts as the control centre of a cell.  They also possess a vacuole which controls water balance in the cell.  The chloroplasts are the site of photosynthe...